Osi Umenyiora wants a proper payday, for sure. But there's something else the two-time Super Bowl champ desires in the first taste of free agency in his 10-year career.

The biggest personal accolade of them all.

"I'm shooting for defensive player of the league this year," Umenyiora, a defensive end for the New York Giants since the team drafted him in 2003, wrote in an e-mail to USA TODAY Sports. "Whatever team I feel like I can help win and will give me a chance to do that, that's where I'm going. The money is a byproduct of that, you know."